In this episode, we sit down with Jay Pratte, President of the Bear Care Group and Director of the Miller Park Zoo. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the origins of the Bear Care Group, AZA's Well-being shift and the future of animal welfare science.
Resources we discussed:
- https://www.bearcaregroup.org/
- Maher, Chloe J., Angela Gibson, Laura M. Dixon, and Heather Bacon. 2021. "Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive Hibernatory Bear Species" Animals 11, no. 11: 3090. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113090
- https://greystonebooks.com/collections/else-poulsen
- https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2332/aza_animal-welfare-strategy.pdf
- https://www.eaza.net/
- https://www.waza.org/